Tony Finch's link log

This page lists some recently popular links.

• 2012-05-12 BXP8Y 183 When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed.
• 2012-05-07 5RGLP 129 Recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions.
• 2012-05-16 L6BNP 120 The Unix way, the Emacs way, and the wrong way.
• 2012-05-10 DKHK7 119 The floppy disk means save, and 14 other old-people icons that don't make sense anymore.
• 2012-05-10 PC82F 114 BT cheerfully admits snooping on home LANs.
• 2012-05-10 VH7DW 113 Why ZeroMQ should have been written in C not C++.
• 2012-05-08 VKW78 112 Republican war against women now attacking the right to vote.
• 2012-05-14 7KDHF 112 Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers.
• 2012-05-08 NT9DZ 109 Many kids have Firefox + TOR on a USB stick for bypassing school and ISP filters.
• 2012-05-13 FVV6C 108 Dress code: blue tie and male. Dell says women should not work in tech.
• 2012-05-09 28TG6 105 Diageo screw BrewDog.
• 2012-05-11 PMRJ8 104 If you meet a censor, ask them this question.
• 2012-05-06 7D5MP 104 Bertrand Russell's ten commandments for teachers.
• 2012-05-06 NDF8Z 103 All the Earth's water in a sphere.
• 2012-05-13 FH8GL 99 FreeBSD 10 to be compiled with LLVM clang, and deprecate gcc.
• 2012-05-12 PYJZ9 95 The right won the economic argument and the left won the culture wars.
• 2012-05-16 7D5P8 93 The wrong Carlos: Texas sent an innocent man to his death.
• 2012-05-16 G9HJT 91 The judge in the Oracle/Google Java/Android lawsuit seems to be a programmer.
• 2012-05-12 57YH2 91 This is why teachers leave teaching.
• 2012-05-17 N8BXL 89 America had an openly gay president in the 1800s.
• 2012-05-16 WFD2J 86 In praise of CSV.
• 2012-05-07 8LPLJ 84 e4rat: defragment ext4fs to reduce boot time.
• 2012-05-17 X8BNJ 78 People who viewed a 55 gallon drum of lube on Amazon also viewed...
• 2012-05-08 WY8VM 78 The most confusing git terminology.
• 2012-05-11 KYY2Y 76 Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers.
• 2012-05-08 7NYCD 76 Aran Islands megagravel is moved by storm waves.
• 2012-04-18 FF6YT 75 FreeBSD slaughters Linux in this authoritative DNS performance benchmark.
• 2012-05-09 5TMB7 74 A set of top Computer Science blogs.
• 2012-05-15 7JD8F 72 Time-lapse map of Europe since 1000 AD. (YouTube)
• 2012-05-07 ML6R9 71 RFC 6297: a survey of lower-than-best-effort transport protocols.
• 2012-05-09 62268 71 To discourage piracy, US government is making legit movies even worse.
• 2012-05-11 Z9T65 70 FF Chartwell: an OpenType font that turns numbers into charts using ligatures and stylistic alternates.
• 2012-05-15 W5HGP 68 Operation Elveden may bring down Rupert Murdoch.
• 2012-05-06 VT6K5 67 Minecraft implemented in Minecraft.
• 2012-05-05 F6729 67 What is the 21st Century blackboard?
• 2012-05-06 X7TRZ 66 Elsevier's recent update to its letter to the mathematical community.
• 2012-05-10 5GBRP 66 Mozilla complains about Microsoft banning Firefox from Windows 8 on ARM.
• 2012-05-15 7DRTJ 65 VLC's billion downloads relied on French freedom from software patents.
• 2012-05-11 666HK 64 Voting for checked exceptions in Java.
• 2012-05-08 MKZ6G 63 Never Seconds: a daily dose of primary school dinners.
• 2012-05-10 9859D 62 The end of Moore's Law is nigh, says Broadcom's CEO.
• 2012-05-08 J7J8T 61 Audiophools! What your hifi rig needs is an atomic clock.
• 2012-05-14 ZNGX8 60 Nerds need to operate within the realm of traditional power and politics or we will lose.
• 2012-05-09 YX59F 60 Iron Sky in the UK for one day only?
• 2012-05-17 XRVB5 60 Taxing the rich is too controversial an idea for TED to spread online.
• 2012-05-09 MJT2G 60 Proliferating ways of bypassing the Pirate Bay blocks.
• 2012-05-07 5XLL9 60 TCP sucks: latency-based congestion control (as in uTP) is better.
• 2012-05-17 DX2NM 59 LOLcommits.
• 2012-05-06 78GCR 59 Peter Zotov: (a bit of) whitespace.
• 2012-05-16 TYK52 58 Linux's userland plumbing layer as the new kernel.
• 2012-05-06 JHJ7R 58 Impressive automatic video stabilization available after upload to YouTube.
• 2012-05-13 WWFK9 57 The correlation between religiosity and well-being among U.S. states.
• 2012-05-11 JC7XN 57 JSON home document: the entry point for a RESTful web API.
• 2012-05-15 FH9JV 57 They're not 'orphan works', they're 'hostage works'.
• 2012-05-14 8BLTB 57 Telecoms and the London Olympics.
• 2012-05-09 2NPB7 57 Pastafarianism in the US military.
• 2012-05-08 ZFCK6 56 Modern active queue management is just one piece of the solution to buffer bloat. (Van Jacobson)
• 2012-05-07 G9ZDN 56 Electoral reform a year after the AV referendum: most people support PR; a fifth support FPTP.
• 2012-05-16 7BGNK 56 What The Times cycle safety campaign has taught us so far.
• 2012-05-16 6WJLW 56 Straight White Male: the lowest difficulty setting in the RPG of life.
• 2012-05-10 6GMH8 55 Vexing exceptions.
• 2012-05-14 WL6YZ 54 STV has made big difference to democracy in Scotland.
• 2012-05-07 B57FM 54 Parse URLs in JavaScript using the DOM.
• 2012-05-10 GHM5P 53 C! (C-bang): a system-oriented programming language.
• 2012-05-10 FJ7BJ 53 AppleScript's English-likeness monster.
• 2012-05-17 7DH2Z 53 BitTorrent was never the problem, bufferbloat was. Where will the next operational nightmare arise?
• 2012-05-09 VMV8Y 52 Good Guy Lucifer.
• 2012-05-10 TRNW5 52 Recursive Drawing.
• 2012-05-08 M6NHM 52 Emotive conjugation / Russell conjugation / irregular verbs.
• 2012-05-08 DYLJ7 52 The MSF 60KHz time signal and some memories of the NPL.
• 2012-05-11 Z6YRH 50 Hardware macroarchitecture vs mircoarchitecture.
• 2012-05-10 XZB9R 50 MESS in JavaScript: emulating lots of old computers in your browser.
• 2012-05-10 XX8DB 50 Jumping through hoops: the grueling farcical campaign that won London the 2012 Olympics, at gargantuan expense.
• 2012-05-10 K6259 50 What is and is not a technology company.
• 2012-05-14 G5LLF 50 Base16k: efficient binary data encoding in Unicode text.
• 2012-05-16 FC7PY 50 Swear should I go to eat?
• 2012-05-10 ZYHK6 49 WiFi Pineapple Mark IV: $90 hotspot honeypot.
• 2012-05-14 77T8X 49 Another Bitcoin hack + theft.
• 2012-05-08 H87XF 48 Fundamental progress solving bufferbloat.
• 2012-05-12 TDL6M 47 What the battle over the meaning of SDN reveals.
• 2012-05-12 8XXB9 47 Software defined networking: the future of networking, the past of protocols.
• 2012-05-14 58VYG 47 Open Data Structures: an open source textbook.
• 2012-05-11 X9MJY 46 Communications interception: dazed half-memories of a conference call with Julian Huppert.
• 2012-05-08 VHZ2P 46 20 years of SMS.
• 2012-05-08 TD9RT 46 Going dark, or a golden age for surveillance?
• 2012-05-09 LM69C 46 Lib Dem policies in the Queen's Speech.
• 2012-05-07 6ZD5T 46 Exploring delay-based congestion control.
• 2012-05-10 6YH8V 46 Using a Kalman filter to predict ticket prices.
• 2012-05-16 ZVNZ7 45 The WTO hates dolphins.
• 2012-05-09 KKB2P 45 How a Florida "pill mill" operation fuelled a painkiller abuse epidemic.
• 2012-05-11 JK796 45 Driving a receipt printer from OpenWrt on a TP-Link micro router.
• 2012-05-10 H7YJ7 45 Real-time collaborative editing is like exception handling, but the arrows in the category are reversed.
• 2012-05-11 RNN2D 44 Google API discovery documents.
• 2012-05-17 JL7ND 44 Cat plays and wins the shell game. (YouTube)
• 2012-05-07 C6RTC 44 IETF ConEx congestion exposure concepts and use cases.
• 2012-05-06 9LPR2 44 ParFunk: How to write hybrid CPU/GPU programs with Haskell.
• 2012-05-14 56FPT 44 Envisioning a non-evil version of "trusted" computing.
• 2012-05-16 B6DJN 43 An overview of the IBM 801 minicomputer. (1977)
• 2012-05-13 WPB8P 42 Mark Henderson talking about his book "the geek manifesto" on evidence-based policy in Cambridge.
• 2012-05-10 MV6HJ 42 Configurable trampolines without writable code pages on iOS and Mac OS.

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